A Study of Influence of Entrepreneurship Teaching Workshops on the Increase of Creativity and Innovation of the Payam- E- Noor Universities of the Mazandaran Province Case Study: Payam- E-Noor Universities of the Mazandaran Province’s West

Narges Larijani^1, , Esmail Shabani Nejad² and Avishan Yazdani³

¹Departman of Management Payam Noor University(PNU), P.O.BOX19395-3697, Tehran, Iran

²The M.A. student of Business Administration Tehran University

³2The M.A. student of Business Administration Tehran University

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Narges Larijani, Esmail Shabani Nejad and Avishan Yazdani. A Study of Influence of Entrepreneurship Teaching Workshops on the Increase of Creativity and Innovation of the Payam- E- Noor Universities of the Mazandaran Province Case Study: Payam- E-Noor Universities of the Mazandaran Province’s West. International Journal of Materials Lifetime. 2015; 2(1):38-43. doi: 10.12691/ijml-2-1-6

Abstract

Possession of entrepreneurship culture can be searched both in the bed of personality traits and social norms of society. With aim of studying the influence of entrepreneurship educating workshops on increase of creativity and innovation of the students in Payam- E- Noor universities of the Mazandaran province’s west, current research is carried out. The used research method is descriptive being of the surveying- correlation type. Statistical universe of the current research consists of all students of Payam-E-Noor universities of the Mazandaran’ s west which a 85- individual sample of students, using Morgan table, has been selected by random sampling method. Tool of data/information collection in this research is questionnaire, including 29 questions, and it has been analyzed by use of Pearson analysis statistical methods and T test. Results of the research show that the first and second hypothes of this research dealt with a studying the influence of traits of search for success and independentism of the entrepreneurship teaching workshops on the creativity and innovation have been confirmed. And, the third hypothesis dealt with a study of trait of risk- taking in universities has not been confirmed. Also, the fourth hypothesis concerned with studying the trait of creativity and innovation relates to holding of the entrepreneurship teaching workshops positively and significantly. Therefore, it can be concluded that entrepreneurship teaching workshops influence on increase of creativity and innovation of students positively.

Keywords:
entrepreneurship creativity and innovation entrepreneurship workshops students

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